To take from President Clinton’s line.  (Which was “It’s the economy, stupid.”)

I’m watching the debate on ABC right now.  They’re talking about how they aren’t going to raise taxes on the “middle income”, and in the next breath how they’re going to raise the capital gains taxes.  Well, I’m certainly middle income, and I have capital gains.  So you’re going to raise my taxes!  Besides history shows you get more money from the capital gains tax when it’s lower.  So it doesn’t make sense to raise it.

The budget deficit for our country is quite large.  Somewhere around $9 trillion.  It seems to me the government has a spending problem.  It doesn’t make sense to spend more than you make.  If you spend too much you can’t spend as much the next month.  Cut government spending.  Get the federal government back to what it is supposed to do, instead of everything it has decided it should do now.  Even if you don’t cut my taxes right now, but cut government spending, I’d be okay with that IF the extra money paid off the national debt.

We need strong fiscally conservative leadership in our country.

As many people know I can’t wait to get my iPhone. Granted that’s not happening for a few more months, but I’m still really excited. There are many times when I wished I had one, thought it would be handy in a certain situation, or was just bored and wished I could check my email.

One thing I thought of today: It would be great to have the books on the iPhone. I bring a book to work on a regular basis. It’s usually a text book for class, so I can do some homework during my breaks. If I could have the books on my iPhone that’d be one less thing to carry. Of course I would want/need the ability to highlight text and probably make notes about in there too. Bringing the text book to the digital age would be nice to have. Having them all in my pocket would be even better.

So I did a little bit of Googling on the issue. I haven’t really found the solution I’m looking for. Granted, that may come in June when there are more apps for the iPhone. I think it would be useful, especially for those in college, or those who enjoy reading. The only glitch is that most text books probably wouldn’t be popular enough to have in the digital form. But it would be nice to have the option. I like to simplify my life.

Also, I’m testing a new process with this blog posting. Posting from Google Docs. We’ll see how well it works out.